What Tetsuo concerns itself with is a fella waking up one morning with a nasty boil on his face, a metal pin sticking out of it, a ghastly pus-spewing growth right there on the cheek - the kinda thing that wants nothing more than to douse a man's mirrors in blood-laced gut-spunk. It's the kinda hellish skin-fart that should pretty much numb a fella's filthing aspirations for a time, and yet no, he still gets to share a bed with a lovely lady, and also, get buggered with a lengthy metal dildo, buggered with such force that smoke rises out his arsehole.
Turns out this boil is the least of his worries, since he's also in the process of turning into a machine-beast of some kind, ending up a mass of wire and iron and steel with a pointed spinning drill for a penis.
Worse, he's not the only one this is happening to.
Not only is there a second metal-beast in the making over in the bowels of some nightmarish industrial area of some kind, but also, our hero can't even catch a train without the passenger to his left turning out to be a she-demon with a buncha steel for an arm, chasing him about the place in frenzied hyper-real stop-motion.
When critics say things like "Unlike anything you've ever seen!", what they mostly mean is "Unlike anything you've ever seen, on account of you ain't saw a flick in your life that ain't been shat out Hollywood's shit-pipe. To be honest, I saw at least a dozen hyper-real stop-motion metal-man dildo assaults this afternoon already, and I got fifty more lined up for the evening."
Trust The Duke, though, when he tells you that it's safe to say Tetsuo is pretty much unlike any damn thing out there, although for sure, a fella can trace its aesthetics and themes way back to at least 1816, when Mary Shelley and her pals were locked up out the damn rain for an evening spooking each other witless with tales of horror most horrid.
Considering the flick is so concerned with convergence and modification and disparate cultural entities shagging themselves senseless and birthing a hideous mutant offspring, it stands to reason that, whilst Tetsuo stands apart from most everything else, it's still possible to catch hints and whispers of the influences here and there.
Article comments
1 - Chris Beaumont
Very cool, Duke!
I am looking forward to viewing my copy, which will be my first introduction to Tetsuo.
2 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
thanks Chris! look forward to your thoughts!
3 - Eric Berlin
Brilliantly mad and just plain brilliant offerings as always, Duke!
Has the phrase... "steam rising out his arsehole" ever yet been stated (in English or any language, known or forgotten) in the history of time?
Surely not!
4 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
thank you Eric! much appreciated!
with regards the bumhole talk, probably there's a couple Queen lyrics that talk of such phenomena. who knows?
5 - Drella
Damn, Mr.The Duke,
You always know the right thing to say. First there was that stunning piece on Mr. Doherty, and now I stumble across this. During my high school years I must have watched this hundreds of times.
Keep keepin' on, I like what you have to say.
Drella.
6 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
well thank you drella! mentioning Mr Doherty, Fuck Forever finally arrived today. sweet moses, tis all the glorious in the world for to hear it "proper".
7 - Temple Stark
Video Editor Eric Berlin picked this for an Editors' Pick of the Week. Go find out why HERE.
Thank you.
8 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
wonderful! aw, an a man was all sortsa down, too. a fine pick-up, that is.